The Sun. — London, England, 1864-05-24 00:00:00

Moyerbeer—A Character. Among all those who have won an universal re putation in dramatic music, Meyerbeer was the most timid, the most insecure as to his own purposes, with elk his gigantic notions of effect. His operas were not so much written as stuck together, bit by bit, while the rehearsals of them were going on. If a machinist under a paper cap crossed the stage, and made some irreverent remark on the length of this scone—or that other procession—the composer shrank up, faltered, held council on the matter— and afte r having been inexorable in his first pre tensions, conceded, with a humility which became ignoble, in regard to the man under the paper cap. He did not know what his effects were to be, or where they were to be made, but went on trying, contriving, and like the bird that builds a nest, bringing, here a straw—there a bit of wood —anon, a fragment of wood or stone—and, in the end, build ing not so much a nest as a habitation for musical drama. No stone was left unturned by him to procure --one might better say to force—a success. It may be questioned whether so skilful an artist ever existed, who employed with so elaborate a patience every machinery of compliment and cajolery as he did. He prepared for the first representations of his operas by paying money right and left, with an anxiety humiliating to think of, and on a scale of expense impossible to any other who had not an ample private fortune. No ante-chamber was too mean for hint to be willing to wait in it, pro vided the master of the house had the slightest shred of influence on press or public. He shared Sir Robert Walpole's opinion that every man has his price, and would return to attempt and to tempt every imaginable assistance with a pertinacity nothing short of whimsical, but which was rather distressing to be exposed to. The Boulevard des Italiens, a sort of French Rialto for musical rumour, streamed with tales of his expedients, months before his operas were painfully born. One year, said rumour, Meyer beer had been buying up all the stage organs, to prevent his new organ effect being forestalled. There Was a later tale how he had connived to the crip pling of the organ at the Grand Opera, when the same was to help a great scene in Nieodemeyri's " Stradella." Another year, would come simmering stories of pilot banquets after the fashion of Lucullus (and well did Meyerbeer understood the art of dining, till ill health, and with it hypochondria, claimed him). He had no objection to bespeaking opera books at munificent prices, from the men of feuilleton, home or foreign, though it did not follow that the books were to be set. I can speak to his face of puzzled inquietude, when one of the fraternity ventured to decline a commission for such a piece of work—in its very purpose, and by its very essence, unproducible. Though he harrassed everyone during his rehearsals to the point of exas peration, by at first refusing the smallest concession, when the hour of performance drew nigh he was seized with a cowering terror, which would yield or admit any change. Music lasting one hour and a quarter was cut oat of " Le Proplaete" within a very few weeks of its production :—and its great situation—the one of facination, in the fourth or Cathedral act, would have possibly shared the same fate, had not Madame Viardot, the original Fides, backed by Ary Scheffer (how all this comes back like a thing of yesterday !), pleaded to be allowed to show what could be represented by such an actress in such a situation.—Dickens's " All the Year Round." DIONEY MARKET AND COMMEILCIAL INTELLIGENCE, CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. The commercial community are now anxiously hoping for another reduction on Thursday next in the Bank of England minimum, and, as a matter of course, there is very little business transacted in the interim. The public are holding over their bills in anticipation of the event, and the rates now current are from 7 per cent. upwards. Capital is abundant, gold has continued to flow into the Bank of England, and as competition among the bill brokers during the past fortnight has been excited, the authorities cannot have had many applicants for discount. Under all the circumstances, there- fore, there seems great probability that the expected alteration will be realised. A further sum of £llO,OOO in bar gold Was taken into the Bank yesterday, The 27th inst. has been appointed by the com mittee of the Stock Exchange for a special settle ment in the English scrip of the Mexican Loan, company, which eventuality has been borne testi mony to by a distinguished official of the country. Two O'CLOCK. At Paris this morning, • according to Renter's telegram, the Three per Cent. Relates were 661. 75c. Firm. A few dealings in the English stocks this morn ing have occasioned an improvement of a in the Funds compared with yesterday. The continued favourable prospect of monetary affairs has also im parted a firmer tone, and Consols are 911 a for money, and 901, t, less the dividend, for the account. The New Threes and Reduced Annuities are 89i ; Exchequer Bills, 13s dis. ; India 5 per Cents., 1051 ; Debentures, 98i ; En faced do., 104; and the Bonds, 24s die. There has been a general improvement in the Foreign Market, and business is moderately active, Turkish 6 per Conte., 1862, are 701 711 ; do., Con solide3, 48 4 ; Mexican, 44 4.5 k; do. New Loan, to k prem.; Greek, 231 ; Spanish Passive, 34k ; Portuguese, 481 g ; Russian Scrip, 3i - 6 prem. ; Swedish do., 1 to 2 prem ; and the Confederate Loan, 65 67. Business in the Railway Share Market has con• tinned very quiet, and there is little change of importance to report as regards values. Bank and Miscellaneous Shares also remain ea• ceedingly inactive, but generally support previous wices. BRITISH FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES. GOVERNMENT FUNDS. 3 per Cont. Consols Ditto Account, May 8 per Cent. Reduced New 3 per Cent Now 2z per Cent. Jan. 1891... . Ditto 5 per Cent., Jan. 1873 A anuities, 30 yrs, expire 6th J an., 1880 Ditto for 30 yrs, expire sth April, 1885. Ditto (Red Sea Telegraph), Aug. 1908. March. June. Exchequer Bills, £l,OOO, 21 & 3 per Cent. 13 dis Ditto £5OO .. Ditto £lOO and £200 Bank England Stk, 5} per Ct. Ditto Account.. INDIAN GOVERNMENT SECURITIES. India Stock, 10i per Cent., April 1874 217 Ditto 5 per Cont. July, Ib7o Ditto Account.... Ditto 4 per Cent., Oct, 1888 . Do Certificates Ditto Enlaced Paper, 4 per Cent... . 93,/ Ditto 5 per Cent., Jan. 1872 .. 104 Ditto 51 per Cent., May, 1879 — Ditto Debentures, 4 per Ct., April 1861 Ditto ditto Aug. ) 1866 98/ _ . Ditt Bonds ELMO y 24 Ilia Ditto under £l,OOO FOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES, Austrian Bonds, 5 per Cent Ditto 1859 - Brazilian 5 per Cent Ditto 41 per Cent., 1852-58-60 Ditto 1863 .. 87/ 7 Buenos Ayros 6 per Cent .., Ditto Account — Milian 6 per Cent Ditto 41 pei Cent — Colombian 6 per Cent Cuba, 6 per Cent. - Danish 3 per Cent., 1825 Ditto 5 per Cent. 1864 Ditto Scrip £5O paid • • i pm Equador New Consolidated, 1 per Cent.. Egyptian 7 per Cent.. — Ditto, Second Issue Greek 5 per Cent., 1824-5, ex-Coupons 23a Ditto Account 231 i Ditto Coupons Ditto Account lOl Guatemala 5 per Cent. Ditto, 1839 and 1859 Etalian 6 per Cent.(l•laremmana Railway) 51 , :xican 3 per Cent Ditto Account biloorish Imperial 5 per Cent New Granada Ditto 2 per Cent. — Ditto Deferred — Ditto Land Warrants (Hectares) — Peruvian 41 per Cent .. Ditto Account ..., .. Ditto 3 per Cent. (Uribarren) Ditto 41 per Cent., 1862 Ditto Account Portuguese 3 per Cent., 1853 Ditto Account Ditto 3 per Cent., 1866, '7, '9, '6O, 62,'3 Ditto Account 4Bl Russian 5 per Cent., 1822, I St — Ditto 41 per Cent., 1850 — Ditto 3 per Cent 1859 Ditto 5 per Cent, 1862 — Ditto 1864 Scrip, £lO paid Ditto Anglo-Dutch .. Sardinian 5 per Cent — Ditto Account — Spanish 3 per Cent Ditto Account Ditto New Deferred Ditto Account Ditto Passive Ditto Account Spanish Cert. of Coup not funded Ditto Account - Swedieh, 4 per Cent — Ditto Scrip, £2O paid — pm turkish 6 per Cent. 1854 — Ditto Account Ditto 6 per Cent. 1858 . Ditto Account Ditto, £lOO Bonds J)itto 6 per Cent. 1862 . Ditto Account .. 70‘ Ditto £lOO Bonds 7ll 701 Ditto 1863 Ditto Guaranteed, 4 per Cent. lOOl Venezuela 3 per Cent. Ditto Account — Ditto 6 per Cent., 1862 Ditto Account s6a I Ditto 6 per Cent, 1864 Ditto 1 , 1 per Cent Dividends on the above payable in Lend , i 1 Austrian, 5 per Cent.. Ex. 10 Florins. -- Belgian 41 per Cent., Ex. 25f —,- Dutch 2} per Cent., Ex. 12 Guil 64 Ditto 4 per Cent. Certificates Italian, 5 per Cent., 1861, Ex, 25 francs — THREE O'CLOCK. Console Money Ditto Account Which is to be included in the official list. A. call of £2 per share, payable on or before the 18th, proximo, has been announced by the directors of the Financial Corporation. The letters of allotment of the Tavistock Iron Works and Steel Ordnance Company (Limited), are now ready. The shareholders of the Bank of London held a special me eting to-day, when the resolutions passed on the 9t'a instant fur increasing the capital were duly confirmed. burin g the last few days a moderate amo un t o f b4siuess has been transacted in the Foreign and Colonic), Produce Markets. Sugars have been in fair Teeniest at full rates, while the dealings in coffee 11 " 0 been to an average extent without material cha ng:e as regards values. For rice, fruit, and spiees clnotmions have remained unchanged, and business in the tallow market has been dull, but at steady Prices. The annual meeting of the National Bank was h eld today—Mr I. N. M'Kenna in the chair. The l 'ePt)rt, which was unanimously adopted, stated that 4 in' 38 the accounts were made up a dividend at the rate of i 8 per cent, per annum, and an extra dividend of le a, per share, was paid in Feb. last; the amount of undivided profits after these payments stood at £ 129,174, 168. 10d., as compared with £103,729 as , . 10d. of the previous year. The directors had increased the capital from £1,000,000 to £2,000,000 by the issue of 20,000 new shares, at a premium of £25 per share to the old shareholders, and £3O pc.): share to the general public, The General Contract Company is a r_evi- under taking just formed for constructing, maintaining, and, working of railways, maniefacturing railway ple.nt and rolling stock for eale or hire, reclaiming Lends, building reservoirs, roads, bridges, docks, ILarbours, piers, breakwaters, &c., &c. The direc tors have secured the business of the eminent con tr actor, Mr. Rowland Brotherhood, who has agreed to transfer the whole of his business to the com pany upon terms which may be considered as favourable. The works, which are situated at the Great Western Railway station at Chippenham, together with the plant and e:xisting contracts, are to be taken at a valuation, and one-third of the amount ie to be paid in 81 - Aares. The capital re quired is £1,000,000, but only half that amount is to be called up in the first instance, The English, S eeedisb., and Continental Financial Company (Limited) require a capital of one million, in 20,000 £5O shares, proposing a first issue of 10 ,000 shares, 2,500 of which are reserved for S weden. No call is to exceed AA Three months to elapse between each call, and it is not intended to call up more than £l5 per share. The directors, whose names will be found in another column, are gentlemen of high standing in the commercial world, set forth the objects of the association as in tended to promot e the development of the resources of Sweden and Norway, and by thus applying the eehscribed capital they are of opinion that n large field will be (Peened up for safe and profitable in vestment. In Norway and Sweden no such insti tution exists, consequently the vast foresee, the in exhaustible mineral deposits, the agriculture, th e r iaing commerce of the country demand the finan .cial aid which this company proposes to A lter a cl ose i nvestigation, and looking at give. the narked BIICOCSS of the Enekilda Bank and similar Institutions, the directors acto r are confident of a satia ), p e cuniary result from the operat'ons of the Liverpool Cotton Market—This Day, Market firmer. Sales, about 6,000 bales, Im ports, 15,924, Previously, 8,290. FRENCH ACADEMY OF SCIENCES. At the last sitting the Minister of Public Instruc tion announced that the Minister of the Imperial Household and ehe Fine Arts had ordered a bust of the late M. Biot, executed by M. Lequesne, to be placed in the Palace of the Institute. A paper was received from M. Vionnois, describing six brick kilns of the Gallo-Roman period discovered at La Roche-du•Thay, in the department of Ille-et- Vilaine. The fragments of tiles lying about suffi ciently prove their origin, their slnpe being Gallo- Roman, and some of thF7An even bearing the trade mark of the brir.;emaker, which, however. it has been imposeibl:e to decipher. The tiles are flat, 40 centimetrP's in breadth, and two in thickness, with ib .. ..eral rims. The kilns were all alike, and one ;of ',nem is still in good preservation. It is rectan gular, 2'oB metres long by 1.70 in breadth ; its walls are vertical ; the fire-place is 10 centimetres deeper than the kiln itself, and separated from it by a floor resting on three supports, and pierced with holes, through which the flame penetrated between the tiles placed verti cally in rows, The holes near the perimeter are wider below than above, while the contrary is the case with those near the centre. From all this it appears that bricks used to be burnt in kilns similar to those now used for earthenware. b 7. Garraud communicated a method imagined by him for preventing the terrible consequences r?f. explosion by fire-damp, or at least for reducing them to mere pecuniary damage without loss of life. His plan is to deterreedoe explosions by means of the electric induction-spark of Ruhenkorff's machine before the miners desoend into the galleries. After describing the way in which the wires ought to be arranged, he says : "Every day, before the miners go to their work, several sparks must be let off in the galleries ; then if an explosion ensues the gas will be destroyed; if, on the contrary, after several sparks there is no explosion, th ere i s no reason why there should.be any with an ordinary lamp. The Perpetual Secre tary remarked that a similar practice had long been in use, though not with the induction-spark ; men being sent down into the galleries with lights fixed to long poles, They creep along, holding the lights aloft, because fire-damp always accumulates at the roof of the gallery, i and thus p ro d uce explosions which are harmless n proportion to the frequency with which the operation is perfurnaed." NATAL SITGAR.—S ugar has taken a Proud position as our largest staple. It is dif f icult, in the absence of reliable statistics, to form an estimate of what the year's crop may have been, but it cannot have fallen far short of 3,000 tons. The yield has been generally satisfactory. On very few estates less than a ton per acre has been averaged. On many two tons have been obtained, and several fields are cited as having yielded fully three tons per acre.—Natal Mercury. THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING-, MAY 24, 1864. SHARE MARKETS—This day. Share Railways. Paid. 13.14. S Si Si 9 83 k 5 1181 119 k ORDINARY SHARES AND STOCKS• Closing 1 Business Price. done. and Str. Val. liiythe and Tyne. Bristol and Exeter Caledonian _ o.l Cork and Bandon Cornwall I D , A I A 2.etli ED diVl 'D o. B till6pc.p an.has ( . been paid to 13. Dublin & Belfast June,. Dun.,Perth,&Ab. Juno! !Edinburgh ar, lasgow. Glasg. and S. Western. IGreatEastern, Ord. stk Ditto A stock ... 1 Ditto East Anglian stj GrcatNorthof Scotland! Great Northern Do A stock B do Gt.. S. au f W. of Ireland' eirc..at Western Do Str Val gua. stool; Lancashire & Yorkshire London and Biackwall Lon., Bright.,& S. Coast Lou., Chat., and Dover Lon. & North Western Lon. & So'.th Western Man., Met., & Lincoln. Maryport and Carlisle. Do # shares • Metropolitan Midland Do New Do Binning. & Derby Mid. Gt. W. of Ireland Do. 4 shares 'did Kent Do Cray Line North British Edin., Perth, & Dundee , Nth. Eastern—Berwioi , Do, G.N.E. purchase Do Leeds Do York Do Carlisle... North London Do New North Staffordshire N. and S. W. Junction. Scottish Central Scot N. E., Aber. stou Do Scot. Mid, stock Shrews. and Welohpool Shropshire Union South Devon South Eastern South Wales S. York. and River Dun 6taines,Wok.,andWok. Stockton & Darlington Do Do New, 186 G "i'aff Vale Do B Do C Ulster Do Do Vale of Neath Victoria sta. and Pim Waterford & Kilkeuny West Cornwall W. II artlepool Har.&R West Midland -Oxford. Do Newport Do Hereford' BRITISH POSSE `;11 art 100 Sk Railways ou I stock iteck stock 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 stook stook 20i 2041 100 100 stock stock stook Stock itock el ock It!antic &St Lawrence Rom.,Baroda&.Cent Inc. Gu. s_per cent... Do N; , w . Do. E. Shares... Buffalo and Laxe liuron Do. Preference ...... ilullalo,Brant,etGodricli 5 p. ot. bds. Aug. 1, 1872 Do. do. July 1, 187: , Do. d.). June 1, 16.4 l;lentta.& S. EaA - n. (LID Caperewn Dock Scrii gastn. Bengal gu. 5 p. kast Indian. ,9 - ,u. 5 p. C. Do. do. (4 Ext..... Do. do. H do. .. Grand Trunk of Canada Do. Ist Fret. Bonds..' Do. do. deferred...... Do. 2d Pref. Bonds.. Do. do. deferred...... Do. 3d Pref. stock ... Do. do. deferred...... Do. 4th Pref. stook... Do. do. deferred...... Gt.lncliaPentu.gua.sp.c Do. New gua. 5 p. 0... Do. January, 1862 Gt. South.of India(Lini uaranteed 5 per cent. Gt. W,ol Canada Shares stook ! av d. 100 100 100 100 100 100 Do. New Do. 6 p.o. '73 witlet opt. p. c. . Business don* IC7 6 1041 Indian Branch Limited Madras. guar., 5 p. c. .„ 41p. o. Extension Dc.l4 Do. Fifth Extension. Sielb.Corp. 6 p. o. Bnds. 31e1b..1i Hobson's Bay. Do. 7 p. o. Bds. Newßrut , swtok & Canda Class A an ci B. N. itl.C'da.s pc lst pt bds Scinde Do. Delhi Do. do DU. Punjr.ub c Do. Do. ........ , Do. indus.St. Flo.) 28i 100 I all 100 (100 1 100 1031 COLONIAL GOVERNMENT SECURITIES. 6 p.e.J a. J ul) 15.577-84 • lOO 103 105 104 Do. p. o. Feb.et Aug 100 102 :04 Do. 6 p.o.Mar.,t Sept. 100 102 104 Do. sp. o. Jan.&luly. lOC 90 it 91 1 Do. 5 Inseribed stock 100 89 91 91 iCapeG.liope, 6 p 0,1873 100 106 108 1061 Do.Ap &Oct. 1880 100 107 109 Do. 189 t 100 1(8 110 Do. Jan. & July, 1591 103 110 112 ,Ceylon, N0v.1878, 6p e 100 102 104 [Mauritius 6 per cent lOO 106 108 Natal Gov. 6 per cent 130 1 , 16 108 IN.B.Gov.6p.o.Ja.StJul) 100 101 103 1011 Do. 6p. c.Ap. & Oct. 100 N. S.W. Gov. 6 p c., 18u 100 99 100 Du. sp. c.,18r1 to 187( 100 99 101 Do. d0.,3888 aupwd6 100 99 101 93 1 1 New Zealand 6 p cent. 100 10 111 NOVI. Scotia Gov. 6p. o. ! steriing, 1875 lOO 103 105 ,Queensland Gcv. 6p. 0, 100 ,S. Aus G6p.o.lB7B.Stup lOO 109 111 IVio.Gov. Op.°. Ja.BrJuly 100 - 'Do. to 60.6. An.,k001.. 100 :08 1 0 9 luol BRITISH. MINES. 2 Cambrian Consol. Gold 1 1 od Amalgamated.. 32 34 560 670 Devon G. Con.. Tavist.) 1 East Bassett (11logan).. 30 67 70 • East Clogau Gold Ltd. lEast Caradon .... —.1114.6 291 auf d. last Cara B rea .. . 9.4.0 81 ef E. WI Rime' (Tavistk.' 8,13.0 3 4 - !GamASt.Aubyn(Gwen 981 7 9 ,Great South Tolgus.... 17s 21 3 'G. Wheal Vor (lleiston 40 3 35 1 1- hen - dlle 11 .1erc.LI's-Foot . 8.12 18 40 111ingston Downs 4.!8.0 31 - ' Lady Bertha Margaret (tiny Lelant 91 1 5 17 , Mario Valley.. 4 Myndy Iron Ore (Lim ; 2/ 11 1 6 New Setun l4)[ 86 90 • North Downs 2l 11 11 N.W11 . 1 Basset(lllo4an 3.1.0 14 2 North Wheal Crotty Par Consols (f.A. Blaze): 21 Vrovidence (tiny Lelnt. , 10 0.7 40 42 South Caradon(St.Cleer, 14 450 470 S. Carn Brea (Illogan) — S. Wheal Fran. (Mogan 18.18.9 40 50 Stray Park 30.17.6 25 27 - famar Silv.& Lead Min fin Crott 9 18 19 West Basset (Illogan) l4 9 10 W CI radon (Liskeard) 5 18 18 West Seton Wheel Basset (Illogan) 54 90 95 Wheal Bullep(ltedruth), 10 30 35 Wheal Kitty (U.Lelant)! 2.0.8 WhealLuchott I 3.5.8 11 2 Wheal Mary Ann ;ran ) 8 12 14 Wheal &ton 584 220 230 225 iV heal Tremwney (Lis ) 7 20 21 Wheal Union 3.17 11 2 PREFERENCE SHARES. Great Eastern, E. Counties, Ext. No. 1, 108 Great Northern, 5 per cent., per cent., redeemable at 10 per cent., 103 Great Western Orig. 4i per cent. pr., 87i PREFERENCE SHARES AND STOCKS. London, Chatham, cte., Metrop. Ext., B 6 per 0ent... , . Ditto, ditto, C 6 per cent. 80 North British (Edin., Perth, and Dundee) 4 per cent., 78 LINES LEASED Al! FIXED RENTALS. West London, Class B, 25 FOREIGN RAILWAYS. Antwerp and Rotterdam, 14 Bahia and San Francisco gua. 7 per cent., 171 f Great Luxembourg, 10 Recite and San Francisco (lira.), gua. 7'per oent., 161 San ['auto (lira.), gua. 7 per cent., 111 t Ditto (all), 20 South Austrian and Lombardo Venetian, 201- FOREIGN MINES. Cane Copper, lira., 121 General, 21 Mont. Aureos Brazil Gold Min. Co., 21 Santa Barbara Gold. Mine (lira.), St. John del Rey (lim.), 14 United Mexican (lira), 61 1 BANKS. Agra and United Service (lim.), 1291 Alliance (Lin.). 6 3 4 Ditto, new, 52 Anglo Austrian, 7 4• Anglo-Italian, limited, 64 Bank of Egypt, 28 Bank of London. 176 5 Bank of t , tago, lim., 51 limnk of Wales, lim., 184 Brazilian and Portuguese, lim., 13t British North American. 50 Chartered Bank of India, Australia, and China, 894 Consolidated Bank, lim., 111 Continental, Um., 19 English and Irish, hill.; 154 Imperial Ottoman, 2la Land Mortgage Bank of India, lim., 64 London Bank of Mexico and S. America, lim., 61 London Bank of Scotland, lim., 22 London, Buenos Ayres, and River Plate, 63 4 34 London and Colonial (Urn.), 184 London and County, 634 London and Northern, lim., 28 London and South African, 254 London and 11 estminster, 95 Merchant Bank, lim , 224 31 • Mercantile and _ d Exchange, Um., 19 National Ditto, new, 43 New South Wales,,s6/ 54 Oriental Banx Corporation. 624 14 Provincial of Ireland. Seinde, Punjab, and Delhi, lira., 131 South Eastern, lim., 5/ Union of Australia, sti Union of London, 584 MISCELLANEOUS. Berlin Water Works, Urn.. Ei City Offices, lim., Commercial Union, Insurance, 8) Continental Union Gas, lint, 71 Contract ..orporation, lim., Crystal Palace, 33 Discount Corporation, 16k Egyptian Ccna, and Trading, Ura.; 5 35 37 16 17 88 90 10E IG6 Ili 47i 13i 7i 129 131 128 140 128 :32 90 92 C 4 64i 111 111 k 66 e 7 103 iO5 40 44 110 i 111 97i 98i, 54 34i j 111 113 132 1321 102 IC4 604 61 244 `4sb 1010 102 57i 681 89 90 127 ISO 1f 24 p 76 78 10 11 121 123 39 40 54 66 33 35 901 91i 103 106 7 A 865 37 i 95 10 8 Si p, 17J 175 6 7 3 pl 100 105 21 23 IKONS. Closing Price. 60 62 1 102 1.04 Id p di 8} 9i 77 82 77 8! 77 82 101 Ic3 98 100 105 107 1041 105 i P t 2u 21t 72 14 61 63 63 65 53 35 48 50 40 42 27 30 25 17 104 105 t 1021 1031 10 10A 10i 90 92 82 88 par ip 102 103 98 98 92 91 57 89 E 5 82 /4 1021 103 i 101 103 id its 102 103 96 98 LAW INTELLIGENCE—(This Day.) COURT OF BANKRUPTCY. (Before Mr. Commissioner Holroyd.) IN RD DOBSON. This bankrupt had carried on a very extensive business as a merchant, in Great St. Helens. The bankruptcy took places short time since. The creditors resolved to take the proceedings out of court. The present was an application with respect to certain moneys received by the assignees, which it was considered ought to be paid over to the trus tees. The case was adjourned. IN RE MACNAMARA. This bankrupt was described as of Navarino-terrace, clerk in the Inland Revenue Office, and this was an appli cation to stay proceedings and wind up out of court. The case was accordingly adjourned. (Before Mr Commissioner Fane.) His Honour was occupied the whole of the morning in hearing arguments as to a deed of arrangement, in which the debtor had duly registered and obtained the certificate, but which was now disputed. POLICE INTELLIGENCE—This Day. MARLBORO UGH- ST RE ET. SINGULAR CHARGE OF ASSAULTING A WlFE.—Oliver Kerby, a tall, strange-looking man, who gave his address No. 15, Gerard-street, Soho, was brought before Mr Knox on a warrant charged with assaulting his wife, Isabella Kerby. Oa the prisoner being placed in the dock he said—l hope this will appear in the papers. Mrs Isabella Kerby, a respectable-looking woman, said— Xesterday morning, about 2 o'clock, my husband came home, having been drinking, and gave me a blow on the head. About 10 o'clock he swore he would do for me if I did not comply with a demand he made. There were two workwomen in the room at the time. I was alarmed; and am afraid he will injure me. He has been going on like this for the past six weeks. Prisoner—l had taken nothin but water. There were blows struck, but it was in the dark. Mr Knox—Has the prisoner e - er been locked up before? Mrs Kerby—Yes, several times, and bound over. Inspector Draper—The prisoner has behaved in a very extraordinary manner all night. Prisoner—My wife has a large amount of money. She is highly connected, .and belongs to a Somersetshire family. Her money is the root of it all. Emma Dawson, a workwoman in the service of Mrs Kerby, said—Yesterday morning the prisoner came home and tried to force his wife on the bed, and said he would jump out of the window. Prisoner—lll use her I Have I not always used the most endearing terms to her? Have I not asked her whether her heart is dead ? and whether her money is not payable ? Witness—l do not think you have acted properly towards her. _ _ Prisoner—l did not ask that. I wished my wife to come to me to calm my agitated nerves. I have begged of her to cease her clatter. Witness—On Saturday I saw him strike his wife in the mouth and make it bleed, Prisoner—Accidentally, when she rushed to me. Mrs Mary Ann Smith, a l so employed by M rs K er b y, sa id the prisoner's conduct is very different to what it used to be, but Ido not think he can help it. I saw Mrs Kerby's mouth bleeding on Saturday. Mr Knox—Was the prisoner drunk ? Prisoner—Oh, I never drink. I'm more sinned against than sinning. Mr Knox—l shall remand the prisoner for a week, and put a notice on the commitment to have his mind inquired into. Prisoner—Thank you—l wish to go to Coldbath Fields. It will be better for her that she removes all the traps before I come out—that is all. ~....r THAMES. SINGULAR DISPUTE BETWEEN Two FORUIGNERS.— Siegiamund Striemer, clerk and traveller, appeared before Mr Partridge to answer a summons, which charged him with detaining certain colours, valudd at £l3 10s, the pro perty of Charles Kaelbel, manufacturer and merchant, of Carlisle-terrace, Fairfield-road, Bow. Mr Stoddart, solicitor, stated the case for the prosecution. The parties to this suit were foreigners. The complainant was almost a stranger to our country, and quite a stranger to our language. The defendant was engaged by Herr Kaelbel on the sth of December last, in the capacity of clerk and traveller, at a salary of £3 103 per week and 2i per cent. commission on sales effected, with one month's notice on either side. The complainant carried on his menu factory in Germany, and the goods he consigned to England. They were allowed to be deposited in premises in Bow, in the possession of the defendant, who was still in the com plainant's employ. On Friday, the 6th of the present month, the complainant having ocoasion for certain goods deposited on the premises in question, went there and de manded them. The defendant simply refused to give them up, and said he would make a high charge against him for seven weeks' eating and drinking and for warehouse room. There were no wages due to the defendant on the 6th of May, and he had no right to detain his master's goods. The defendant had injured his master in every possible way, and it was an unlucky thing for the complainant he had ever been connected with him. The defendant was in prison a few years ago for debt, and had only a few months ago made an assignment of his property without paying a shilling to his creditors. Several judgments were now out against the defendant, and lierr Kaelbel wanted an order for the immediate restoration of hi s pro p e rty. The defendant said he had an objection to the magistrate's jurisdiction. The goods ht was charged with detaining were worth £24, and the magistrates of the police courts only had jurisdiction to the extent of £l5. Mr Stoddart said the goods were valued at £l3 10s. to give the magistrate jurisdiction. The complainant confirmed, through the medium of an interpreter, all his solicitor had stated. He sent goods from time to time to the defendant's place for sale. At that time he was in Germany. He put an end to the contract with the defendant in consequence of Striemer's misconduct, for not properly accounting for money received, and doing busi ness in various names. The defendant asked the complainant if he had made any agreement with him for warehousing goods, and he replied in the negative. The defendant—l have demanded rent of him and he refuses to pay me. _ The complainant denied the accuracy of this statement, and said he would pay any just claims upon him if a proper account was made out. He had offered to pay the amount in cos h, or to give a guarantee if there was any just claim upon him by his servant.. ,atisdahide taesdefsndant had sold his goods . he would t a servant, but an agent, yleitleise.rs, and Co., Schuster, aißnnrdtohtt Brothers e e nr moaonedsds Co., and e a.hnodn worth op tsho en £: 4. rive no opinion on the case, whlTM'ihhcrheepdcothufringethnrPidtldaatgionnetbasnsealtdriel in the County Court. He must dismiss the summons. Mr S to ddart—Very well, sir. M y client will certainly proce ed against Streimer in the , :sc Itity Court. DIARKETS--rhis Day. HAY MARKF,TS. hay, £2 lOs to £4loa Od ; clover, —Meadow £4 Os to £5 lOs Od ; and straw, £1 4s to £1 10s per load. Trade slow. leaiow hay, £2 in £4 ,A CUMBELAND..--3' £4 Os to £5 103 Od i and straw, £1 4s to £1 14s per load. Trade inactive. SMITIIFIELD. W H ITECHA.PEL Meadow--, hay, £2loa to £4lox; clover, £4 Os to £ 5 lO s Od , • an d straw, £l4s to £1 14s per load. A slow demand , ----- COLONIAL. SUGAR—Tiro° has been rather more di s position on the part of the trade to purchase W est India des cr ipti ons , an d pikes generally are w ell sustained. In the Refined Market quotations are unaltered. COFFEE—There continues late to be a fair inquiry for colonons ial which have realised fully rates, and oth e r descripti' • are without material change. ace been dis RICE—A few small parcels hposed of, chiefly East India, which ha ve realised about former quotations. TALEow—The market hascontinued very quiet although prices for bot h present and forward deli very ar e well maintained. P.Y.C. on the spot is quoted 40 s 3,1 May and June 40s to 40s 31 ; and last three months, 43s 3c; to 43s 6d per cwt. -------..... SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE —(This Day. LONDON, May 24.--Wind this day at noon —North- West; fresh breeze and fine weather. PORTSMOUTH, May 23.-" Wind N.W.—Sailed—Lord Warden, for London. d N.W. — Sailed—Atlantic YARMOUTH, May 2 2 . —Win , for Quebec. ind N.Y.—Arrived—Blink PLYMOUTH, May 2 3 . —W Bonny, from Porto Rico. W.—Arrived—B ur t ra t o , CLYDE, May 23.—Wind N. from Mauritius —Shaftesbury, from Calcutta—Olinda, from Pernambuco—lielene, from Trinidad. Sailed—Resolution, for Nassau. ti ova Gott9burg—Jane, Tuesday M orn i ng . BY MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH. Arrived, May 23—Light from Tobao—John Bunyan, from Wellington, New Zealand—Champion, of the Sea!i, .and Red Rover, from Molbourne—Christiana, and Christine Maria, from Holm stad—King Dove, from Dantzic7- I ree, from Jersey— Napoleon, from Gravelines—Pilot, from Havre—Elisabeth, from Guernsey—Herold, from ileslciorf—Terpsichore, from St. Thomas. Arrived, May 24--Nautilus, from St. Kitt's—Lewes, from Alexandria—Malcolm Brown, from Trinidad—Look Out, from Genoa—Equity. from Porto Rico—Sophia, and Concordia, from Guernsey—and Active, from Tarranova. Sailed, May 24.—London, steamer, for Gotteuburg. DEAL, Tuesday Morning, Passed.—Mavrocordatos, screw steamer, from London, for Genoa—Congress, from Sunderland, for Penang. Anchored.—Arnica, bark, from Lagos, for London. The Late Debate on the Georgia, Bishopsgate-street, May 2s, Mr Thomas Baring presents his compliments to the editor of The Sun, and will feel obliged by the insertion of the accompanying correspondence (Copy.) " Bishopsgate-street, May 14, 1864_ "My dear Lord,—ln the report of your speech of last night you are stated to have said— " I want you to consider the feelings with which tha Confederates regard these enormous reinforce ments which have been conveyed by the English people through the hands of Messrs Baring and Co., in violation of her Majesty's proclamation of neu trality.' "Until your lordship rose the mention of namc,. s had been avoided, in order not to give a personal character to a discussicn of great national questions, and, unfortunately, not anticipating such a charge as you made, I was absent during your speech, and did not return to the House of Commons. As, however, such an accusation would not be lightly made by you, and cannot lightly be treated by me, may I ask of you the favour to let me know to what proclamation you referred, and what are the terms of that proclamation which you consider to substan tiate your charge P—Believe me, my dear lord, yours faithfully, (Signed) " THOMAS BARING, "The Lord Robert Cecil, ALP," (Copy.) n, Duchess-street, May 14. "My dear Mr Baring,—l beg to acknowledge your letter, which I received this evening, asking me to what procla. Illation I referred when I said that the munitions of war exported by Messrs. Baring and Co. to the Federal States have been conveyed in violation of her Majesty's proclama tion of neutrality. "In reply I beg to say that the proclamation of which I spoke is that issued May 13th, 1861, and that the passages in it to which I referred were the following : " We do hereby strictly charge and command all our loving subjects to observe a strict neutrality in and during the aforesaid hostilities, and to abstain from violating or contravening either the laws and statutes of the realm in this behalf, or the law of nations in relation thereto, as they will answer to the contrary at their peril. • " ' And we do hereby further warn all our loving sub jects and all persons whatsoever entitled to our protection, that if any of them shall presume in contempt of this our Royal proclamation, and of our high displeasure, to do any acts in derogation of their duty as subjects of a neutral sovereign in the said contest, or in violation or contraven tion of the law of nations in that behalf, as for example and mare especially . . . . by carrying officers, soldiers, despatches, arms, military stores, or materials, or any article or articles considered and deemed to be contraband of war, according to the law or modern usage of nations, for the use or service of either of the said contending parties, all persons so offending will incur and be liable to the several penalties and penal consequences by the sail statute or by the law of nations in that behalf imposed or denounced. " And we do hereby declare that all our subjects, and persons entitled to our protection, who may misconduct themselves in the premises will do so at their peril, and of their owu wrong, and that they will in nowise obtain any protection from us against any liabilities or penal conse quences, but will, on the contrary, incur our high displeasure by such misconduct.' "In the same connection I may also quote the statement made by Mr Laird in your hearing, on the 27th of March, 1663, and not contradicted by you : " I have referred to the bills c,f entry in the Custom Houses of London and Liverpool, and I find that there have been vast shipments of implements of war to the Northern States. 1 find among those who have been engaged in these transactions the celebrated house ';of Baring and Co.' " I presume that the word ' carrying' in the proclama tion includes those who employ others to carry, or abet others in carrying. In strictness it seems to me that the letter of the proclamation prohibits all transactions having for their object to supply contraband of war to either belligerent. But I think it is generally agreed that, as a rule of practice, its meaning must be interpreted by usage. All I claim is that the interpretation shall be impartial, and that the proclamation shall not be held to prohibit the ex• port of one kind of contraband of war—viz., ships to one belligerent, while it is held to permit the export of another kind—vic, arms—to the other belligerent. Of course I am speaking exclusively of the proclamation of neutrality, and am not referring to any ships which may be plover" to have violated the special enactments of the Foreign Enlist ment Act. " In tho course of your note you intimate that I first gave a personal character to the discussion of a great national ques..ion.' I cannot plead guilty to the charge. I think you must have forgotten that you twice applied the word ' fraudulently' to the proceedings of the Liverpool firm that sent out the Georgia—a firm of the highest respectability, whose name is well known, and is, indeed, mentioned in the papers that have been presented to Parliament. The word conveys a severe imputation—probably, in reference to the conduct of a British merchant, the very severest you could have made. I cannot admit that it was I who gave a personal character to the discussion of a great national question.' " The name of the house of Baring was only introduced in order to show how unfair and one-sided were the charges which were made in the course of the debate against those who sent out the Georgia and other ships which afterwards became ships of war, It was said that they acted in fraud of our neutrality, and that they were stirring up feelings of rancour between two friendly nations. Those who were accused were not there to defend themselves ; and it did seem to me only fair to show how little they were really open to censure, by pointing to proceedings equally in vio lation of the letter of the Queen's proclamation, and equally irritating in their effect to the feelings of a friendly nation on the part of one of the first mercantile houses in the world—one to whose authority no Federal advocate would be likely to demur, " I learn for the first time from your note that you were not present in the house when I spoke. It never occurred to me that you were likely to leave before the discussion you had raised was finished ; and the seat you usually occupy is so exactly behind mine that I could not see that yon were away when I was speaking—Believe me, yours very faithfully, (Signed) " ROI3ERT G. CECIE. "Thomas Baring, Esq., M.P. " P.S.—lf you should desire any further explanation 0' anything I have said, my direction for the next week will be, .Poste liestanto, Bruxelles. " (Copy.) "Bishopsgate-street, May 18, 1864. "My dear Lord,—l found on return to town yesterday your letter of 14th inst. " Before you assumed that my firm had been mainly in strumental in conveying assistance to the Federals in vio lation of her Majesty's proclamation of neutrality it would have been well that you should have acquainted yourself with the part which my firm really has taken in these matters. lam not at all prepared to admit that those who have been instrumental in forwarding munitions of war either to the Federal or Confederate States have thereby violated her Majesty's proclamation. On the contrary, it was notorious that such shipments were taking place, and not only was no intimation given on the part of her Majesty's Government that the parties engaged in them were in any way infringing the laws, international or otherwise ; but, on the contrary, the right of neutrals to sell to both or either of the belligerents has been fully re cognised. I am, therefore, justified in assuming that the parties are not open to that imputation; but, be that as it may, my firm has not, in fact, been so engaged. Ia those matters we have acted merely as bankers representing largo banking establishments in the United States, which opened credits with my firm in favour of parties to whom orders were given, but not through us for the purchase and transmission of warlike stores for the use of the Federal Government. We took no part in giving these orders or in the execution of them. All that we had to do was, when the shipping documents were furnished to us to give effect to the credit lodged in favour of the parties furnishing those supplies, and to see that they were properly forwarded to their destination. " I cannot, therefore, admit that is the conduct of these proceedings we have infringed either the letter or the spirit of her Majesty's proclamation. " With reference to my having characterised the proceed ings of the parties charged with equipping vessels of war for the use of the Confederate Government as fraudulent, I did not thereby intend to stigmatise as fraudulent the mere fast of such equipment, illegal as such equipment undoubtedly would be, but my remark had reference to the manner in which these proceedings were carried out. As I have already observed, it was perfectly well known that warlike stores were ordered in this country for the use of the Federal and Confederate Governments, but in the case of the vessels which are supposed to have been equipped for the use of the Confederate Stales every species of concealment has been resorted to in order to cover the real intentions of the parties, and it was in this view of the subject that I alluded to these transactions as being fraudu lent. When Mr. Laird named last year my firm, in com mon with others, as concerned in the shipment of arms and ammunition to the United States, I did not think that any observation was required from me, as ha only mentioned a fact unaccompanied by any charge of illegality or impro priety. " I ought certainly, as you say, to have been present during your speech ; but from the previous temper of the debate I had not anticipated any personal observation, and I had intended to return if the debate continued. As, how ever, I was prevented, although from my own fault, from making any remark upon your charge, and as everything tha6 falls from your lordship must have g reat weight, you will, I suppose, have no of jection to the publication of this 112 j 141 14 132 1011 i correspondence when it closes.--,believe me, my dear lord, faithfully yours, (Signed) "Tiro7,cA,s BARING. "The Lord Robert Cecil, MX., Brussels," (Copy.) "Brussels, May 20, 1864. "My dear Mr. Baring,—l beg to acknowledge your letter of the 18th instant, which I received to-day. I oonfeesthat I am unable to follow the construction you place upon the language of the Queen's proclamation. It seems to me, so far as I am in a position to judge, that the transactions of your firm, as now described by you, fall within the letter of the prohibition which I quoted at length in my last letter. The proclamation forbids the Queen's subjects to `carry' contraband of war to either belligerent. You tell mP that warlike supplies have been ordered for the use of the Fede ral Government, and that your firm has been engaged in seeing that they were properly forwarded to their destina tion.' in other words, yon have been superintending the ' carrying,' which is pointedly forbidden by the proclama tion. At the same time I most fully grant that a very much lamer interpretation has been put upon the proclamation both by public opinion in this country, and (what is of more importance) by her Majesty's Government themselves, and that the practical result of that interpretation has been to make the clause I have quoted inoperative. Under these circumstances it clearly follows that the transactions in question cannot b 3 looked upon as in any degree censurable or improper. That such is, in fact, the state of the case, is sufficiently 'indi cated, if other proof were wanting, by the fact that opera tions of this kin have been countenanced by such a house as yours. But my complaint is, that in many recent discussions this latitude of interpretation has not been fairly extended to both sides. Ships are contraband of war just as much as, and no more than, arms, and the exportation of the one, so far as international law is concerned, is as legitimate a transaction as the exportation of the other. There seems to be an inclination, however, among Federal advocates, to put the two upon a different footing in that respect, and to assume in defiance of international prece dents, that the exporter of ships' makes private war, or commits a fraud on our neutrality' in some sense in which tbose phrases are .not applicable to the exporter of arms. Those who, like me, believe, such a distinction to be groundless and unjust are compelled, therefore, when an attack is made upon the firms who sell ships to the Confe derates, to insist on the exactly parallel character of the transactions entered into by those who sell warlike stores to the Federals. "With respect to the personal' character of the debate, to which you again refer, I must repeat the observation that it, in Let, began with your opening speech. Had you been satisfied with passing a general censure upon those who have sold ships to the Confede rates, or who have in your opinion broken the Foreign Enlistment Act, I should undoubtedly been guilty of giving a personal character to the debate, if in such a case I had referred specially to any particular house that had exported arms to the Federals. But you designated a particular firm as a special mark of your severe accusa tions—the Liverpool firm that sent out the Georgia. That you did not utter their names was of small importance, for those names may be found in a public document, and were well known to all who were familiar with the question. "Before I conclude this letter you must forgive me if I enter a word of protest against the accusation of fraud which you made against that firm, and which in your last letter you repeat. Concealment is not necessarily fraud. They had two fair grounds of concealment which justified them employing it. One was the course pursued by the Govern ment, the other was the vigilance of the Federals. The Go vernment, actuated by politic considerations, v: hose gravity I do not underrate, but which should have been submitted to Parliament before they were allowed to operate in preju dice of private interests and rights, was harassing this particular trade by every means, legal and illegal, within its reach. On the other hand, the spies of the United States embassy were is every port ; and a Federal frigate was always at hand of suffi oient force to give effect to their information by capturing so important an article of contraband the moment she had left British waters. Under these circumstances I think a shipbuilder might fairly keep his own counsel without es• posing himself to the charge of fraud. "1 trust I may have persuaded you that the proceedings of your house were introduced by me into the debate merely for the purpose of strengthening my case on behalf of those who I thought were being hardly dealt with, and not in any spirit hostile to yourself. Of course I have no sort of objection to the publication of the correspondence.—Believe me yours very faithfully, (Signed) "T. Baring, Esq., M.P." "ROBERT R. CECIL. Launch of the Prince Albert, - - Yesterday another rather important addition was made to our iron clad fleet by the successful launch of this fine vessel from Messrs. Samuda's yard at Poplar. The Prinee Albert has a double claim to defensive strength, inasmuch as she is not only iron cased, but has her battery in cupolas, or circular turrets also. It would be, of course, useless to deny that these turret ships have numerous oppo nents to their claims to be considered as efficient sea going war frigates, and that these oppo nents include not only some of the most distin guished officers of the Royal navy, but some of our most experienced iron-shipbuilders as well Certainly, the practical experience of rough every day warfare which has been illustrated by the Federal gunboats constructed on this principle would not lead us to be over sanguine as to the success of ships built after the same pattern, if it were not also known that almost everything connected with the guns and plating and speed of the American turret-ships was so far behind our own as really to leave no safe data on which to found a comparison between the two. The attempts which in America have been made to work out the theory of turret ships have been by no means so comprehensive and perfect as to warrant our Government in consider ing them as final, and, whatever may be the differ ences of opinion which prevail here as to the value of the principle, it is satisfactory to see that the Admiralty are bent on trying it with all the auxi liary aids to success, which form, horse-power, and perfect workmanship can contribute. The length of the Prince Albert turret-ship over all is 2401 t., while her breadth is as much as 48, proportions which 'give her a rather heavy and unwieldy ap pearance, and which aro certainly like to tell against a very high rate of speed in heavy water. Her depth is no less than 28ft., and her burden, in tons, 2,529. All the details relating to her general principle of construction are almost precisely similar to those adopted in the Warrior, the Black Prince, and other of cur armour ships. The same care is shown to give extra strength by longitudinal brac ings ; there are the same wing passages along the broadside. which virtually make a double ship of her; she has no external keel, but two bilge plates at each side, which are supposed to answer the same purpose in giving her stability. The plating, too, is the same as on the Warrior, 41in. iron and 18in. of teak, but the Prince Albert is plated from end to end, instead of only over the broadside. At the extreme end of the bows and stern, however, the thickness of the armour is diminished gradu ally to three inches, and, instead of going 5 feet below the water-line, as in other armour clads, it is only taken down 4 feet—a slightness of immer sion which seems to bring the vulnerable parts dan gerously near the surface. Her upper deck is of pine, with a three-quarter inch iron deck beneath it to keep out shells—a thickness which the recent ex perience of the Danish ironclad the Rolfe Krake has shown to be insufficient. She is to be furnished with furnaces for heating shot and melting iron, and is to be driven by engines of 500 horsepower nominal —an amount of horsepower which certa inl y seems small of her when compared with the tonnage or the area midship section. The screw is to be four bladed, and not to lift. On deck are to be four tur rets or shields, as they are indifferently called, with an ironplated pilot house in the bows. Three of the turrets are 22ft diameter and one of 20ft. The pilot house is a mere oval about 6 ft wide b y 12ft long, but plated, like the turrets, with 51 over 7 inches of diagonal planking. All lved on rets, of course, are movable, and are revo c below. Two turntables worked from the main de k inches these tur. of the turrets, it is understood, each, and two are to carry one ea e u h t o uf carry the two heaviest guns All the turrets being calibre that can be got. placed amidships the bulwarks round the upp of upper lightdeek have to be movable, a nd are accordingly made iron fastened by hinges to the deck, so as to be cap able of being low ered at a moment's notice, leaving the guns free to fire anywhere. The launch yester day was most successfully accomplished, Miss Ada Samuda naming the vessel as it glided rapidly into the river. She was sent afloat with the lower streak of armour on from end to end, and with the midship portion of her broadside entirely plated. The rest of her fitting and Equipment will be proceeded with at Woolwich, but nearly, if not quite, a year is likely to elapse before she is commissioned and afloat an effective member of the Channel equadron. . SECONIJ► EDITION. SUN OFFICE, HALF-PAST 4 O'CLOCK. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE—This Day,. EPSOM RACES.—Tms DAY. (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) CRAVEN STAKES. Fairwater Cutaway ... e Blarney .. Five ran, LATEST BETTING ON THE COURSE. DERBY. 11 to 2 agst Scottish Chief (taken freely) 6to 1 agst General Peel (taken) 7to 1 agst Canibuscan (taken) 15 to 2 agst Bir,bbroom (taken) 15 to 1 agst Baragah (taken) 18 to 1 agst Coast Guard (taken) 100 to 3 agst Ackworth (taken) 40 to 1 agst nollyfox (taken) THE OARS. 4to 1 agst Fille de l'Air (taken) ARRlTED—Benanoar, Izaak Walton, Attraction, Odin() Lovelace, Ely, and Eltham. DERBY SCRA.TCHINGS.—Forager, about 11 25 a . m . Monday, May 23; Greville and V auxhall, at 4 18 p.m.: Monday, May 23. THIRD EDITION SUN OFFICE, SEVEN O'CLOCK. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE---This Day, EPSOM RACES-THIS DAY. BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH. BRIGHTON STAKES. Umpire .. 1 Jane Shore 2 Reindeer Eighteen ran. WOODCOTE STAKES. Gardevisure Three ran. HORTON STAKES. Corinthian Tom T. P. Cooke LATEST BETTING. DERBY. 11 to 2 agst General Peel (taken) 6to 1 agst Scottish Chief (taken) 7to 1 agst Cambascan (taken) Sto 1 agst Birch Broom (taken) 15 to 1 agst Baragah (taken) 15 to 1 agst Paris (taken) . 30 to 1 agst Ackworth (taken) 50 to 1 agst Copenhagen (taken) LONDON GAZETTE,—This Evening, BALMORAL, MAY 24. The Queen, as Sovereign of the Most Noble Order of the Garter, has been graciously pleased by letters patent under her Royal Sign Manual and the Great Seal of the Order, to dispense with all the statutes and regulations usually ob served in regard to installation, and to give and grant unto George Granville William, Duke of Sutherland, and George William Frederick, Marquis of Ailesbury, Knights of the said Most Noble Order, and invested with the ensigns thereof, full power and authority to exercise all rights and privileges belonging to a Knight Companion of the said Most Noble Order of the Garter, in as full and ample a manner as if they had been formally installed, any decree, rule, or usage to the contrary notwithstanding. WHITEHALL, MAY 21. The Queen has been pleased to order a cone d'elire to pass the Great Seal, empowering the Dean and Chapter of the Cathedral Church of Peterborough to elect a Bishop of that see, the same being void by the death of Dr. George Davys, late bishop thereof ; and her Majesty has also been L F i r n a c n o e l i n s , J t e o u b n e e, b D y t .C he .t., el D ec e t a e n d B of is te p C o a f th th e ; pleased to recommend to the said Dean and Chapter the the I V C e h r u y rc ß h e o v f . said see of Peterborough. BANKRUPTS. The following are the only bankrupts of commercial portance in the crazette : William Stradling, baker, Bristol Samuel Lane, factor, Wolverhampton Samuel Amery, builder, North Peckham Henry S. Withers, clothier, Chipping Norton Hugh James Hordern, salesman, Cheapside • William Moody, basket maker, Greenwich Josiah F. Wickens, builder, Plumstead Henry Denton, carman, Hammersmith George T. Parnell, engineer, Wardeur-street, Soho Lewis Wells, boot maker, Great Peter. street, Westmin. ster _ _ Afred Grainger, grocer, Camberwell Tom Surridge, licensed vimuller, Coventry- street Edward Thomas, rope maker, Fowey, Cornwall Sarah Moorey, ironmonger, Stroud Richard Fryer, contractor, Merthyr Wm. NVemyss, draper, Old-street SCOTCH BANKRUPTS. Thomas Skene, eating-house keeper, Dundee Wm. Anderson, builder, Craigband, Stirlingshire Andrew Jardine, Greenock Ales. Shearer, miller, Dunipace Mills, Stirlingshire Course of the Exchange.—This Day. Amsterdam Ditto Rotterdam .. 12 0 12 Antwerp.. — 25 67f 25 75 Brussels — 25 671 25 75 Hamburgh — 13 9 13 9k Paris .. Short. 25 30 25 35 Ditto .. 3 Months, 25 67} 25 72k Marseilles Frankfort on Maine .... 120 120 k Vienna Trieste Petersburgh — 321 321 Berlin — Madrid .... --47 k 48 Cadiz Leghorn — 25 771 f:5 821 Milan — 25 80 25 85 Genoa — 25 77/ .C:6 82} 25 80 2 5 85 Naples Palernio — 25 82} 26 87i Messina — 25 821 26 87i Lisbon —51 f 'Jporto. .- Foreign Gold in Bars (Standard), per 0z.... £3 17 9 M ex ican Dollars - Silver in Bars (Standard) SPORTING INTELLIGENCE, TEE FRENCH DERBY. lt f es ; a in 6 od o s o ai b i, hs f a; o l l e . liite,sB,soirossi subs.b,O s o . f O p n i l The Prix du Jockey Club of 20 000 f for 3. r- ld l E mv n eet t ir r Entry, 1,000 f; tr i m , o m o o o il s y t a i n f c decl2ared. Y — e I .2 a° , r 4 e o dB o : M. Delamarre's Bois Roussel (Flatman) 1 M. Lunel's Affidavit Mr T. Carter's Civility J. Watkins) M. Schickler's Poudriere ( The following also ran:—Ninon de l'Enclos, Bayard, Tortocolis, Beatrix, Commega, Sonchamp, Boucicaut, Arcturus, and Scarola. Betting-5 to 4 agst Bois Roussel, 4to 1 agst Beatrix, to 1 each eget Bayard and Comore-ca, 12 to 1 agst Ninon. de l'Enclos, 15 to 1 each agst Affidavit and Arcturus, 25 to 1 agst any other. The lot got away well in a line, but by the time they hag gone over the quarter of a mile which separates the starting post from the stands, had settled down into places. Bou oicaut at this moment led, with Bayard coming nex t, . the . 7l a nd Boat 7, Ninon, Comme-ca, Arcturus, Bois Roussel, the order named, the last three being Poudriere, Torticoll% and Civility. After passing the booths Bayard mastered; his jockey and rushing to the front took a lead of sin or eight lengths, which he maintained for a short time, an d then suddenly shut up, an d went to the rear. Along the road before the villas the only incident was the gradual workin u o f Civility and Pondriere, who had hith er t o g p been running at the t ail. After passing the stables the four leading horses formed a line abreast across the course, with Bois Roussel running coupleati of lengths behind. The quartette were, howeveera,cbheeadetnhen ascending the hill, and by the time they had dr who h corner were no longer in the race. Roussel,had been running steadily 33 .` " foud biding his time, now himself almost alone in front, the only horses near him . being Affidavit, Ninon, and Bea trix. Along the straight the pace which had before been. good, slackened, and the position then remained the same up to within 200 yards of the stand, Affidavit was then seen to make an effort, and in a moment was alongside of Bois Roussel. For a moment M. Lunel's colt showed in front, but Flatman, with an application of the whip, again brought the favourite up to the mark ; the lead was re covered, and Bois Roussel increasing his advance up to the post paksoLl a winner by a length and a half. Civility and P ()wirier° passed Ninon and Beatrix at the stands , and came in third and fourtb, Mr. Carter's filly finishing a couple of lengths in the Affidavit, and Poudriere a length behind Civility. Beatrix and Ninon were fitth and sixth, and the rest scattered over the course anywhere. Value of the stakes 52,000 fr„ deducting 2,000 fr. for the second. RACING FIXTURES FOR 1864. JUKE Nye Maidstone .............. 3 Ascot Hampton l5 Newton l5 Odiham 2l 22 Bibury .. J u Newmarket July Carlisle .. Pontefract Abingdon Camblidge Liverpool July Stamford Beverley .... 22 Stockbridge Chelmsford 2B New Forest Hunt 2B Ne a;Tastle.on-Tyne Woreest.r (Summer) Ipswich LY. Isi lottingh am l9 W inc hester l9 Southampton 1 Ch es t e rfield 2l. King's Lynn 2l Goodwood ..... 1 9.16.4 12.10 6 7 641 i no; I 97,6